Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. Healthcare staffing shortages will continue to negatively impact patient experience in 2023. With healthcare professionals working longer hours and dealing with increased workloads, patient experience has fallen to the wayside.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

"Leveraging our deep experience in telemedicine, it made sense to apply bidirectional audio/video technology to assist our nursing colleagues in addressing some of the issues we hoped to alleviate as we piloted a new model of nursing care," Trepanier said. Executive sponsorship/leadership.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Embracing Remote Care Exalta did not utilize telehealth services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote care became the only non-urgent care option for patients, many of whom are reluctant to embrace video-conferencing technologies like Zoom. Drop-off was not uncommon when patients were referred to an outside specialist.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2020

Everyone sees the obvious when it comes to telehealth. The Stay at Home and Physical Distancing that’s come with COVID-19 has almost required telehealth. Embrace telehealth or die? If we want to really understand what happened to make telehealth go […]. What other option did healthcare organizations have?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2022

One of the hottest topics out there right now it telehealth and the new digital front door. As we head into 2022, we asked the Healthcare IT Today community to share some predictions for the new year. I always find it interesting to learn what people think is coming down the road. These terms have […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Yosi Health offers a full suite of virtual patient intake services that lets patients fill out forms and complete their intake before they come in for clinical visits, online self-scheduling of appointments, two-way text communication, billing, patient surveys, telehealth and more.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Preventive care delivery platform Fullscript has joined the athenahealth Marketplace app store.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2020

We wrote previously about HIPAA enforcement being suspended for telehealth during COVID-19 and more details on how to implement it. Plus, we shared the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth. The good news is that HHS released a HIPAA and Telehealth FAQ that addresses some of those […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 5, 2020

As I was researching to create our list of live video telehealth companies, it became clear to me that telehealth meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people and companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

With so much happening in health IT, how do you keep up? Advice from the Healthcare IT Today community included treating vendors like trusted partners, joining professional organizations, and diving into emerging tech such as AI and telehealth. Read more… How to Develop and Nurture Leadership Skills in Health IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. THE PROBLEM. " MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. But how exactly does digital transformation impact the patient experience?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 14, 2023

Rising Healthcare Consumerism More than ever before, patients expect digital and technology integration within their care experience. Of course, a successful ‘digital front door’ strategy is only possible with a reliable, secure network and consistent, high-speed fiber internet access to enhance the digital experience for patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Brad Younggren, President & Chief Medical Officer, Care Innovation at 98point6 Technologies Telehealth and virtual care more broadly hold great promise and will continue to increase in breadth and depth in the healthcare system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 21, 2021

Humanizing healthcare is a big vision that anyone who has been a patient can appreciate. Far too often patients feel like cogs in the big machine that is healthcare. While Humanizing Healthcare is a big vision, it’s exactly the vision that Jamey Edwards, CEO & Co-Founder at Cloudbreak Health, has set for his company.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. There are many drivers converging in healthcare that underscore the critical role patient engagement plays in determining providers’ long-term success.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Wheel , the health technology company powering the future of care, today announced it will acquire GoodRx Care ‘s backend virtual care technology, including its clinician-centric EMR, powerful clinical management tools, and flexible patient experience software. About Wheel.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volunteer organizations, along with other data-creating entities for public health. during the first quarter of 2020, digital health rose to the occasion: namely telehealth, remote and virtual care mounted by health care providers across the nation within days of the WHO calling the virus a global pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 17, 2020

CMS has announced the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth and telemedicine visits.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s just a few of the bandwidth hungry applications I can think of: interior wayfinding, centralized inpatient monitoring, telehealth, asset management, medical images, RPM (remote patient monitoring), robotic surgeries, new AR and VR applications, IoT devices, and many more. Keep Staff Connected. Enable New Workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

How are they meant to survive if everyone is rushing towards virtual visits and telehealth? Everyone from practice leadership to billers should be educated about information blocking rules. There are numerous resources available from the ONC and practices can also look to their health system partners’ compliance teams for guidance.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2023

Embracing a digital front door experience opens new avenues for engagement and communication with patients. Interactive portals enable secure messaging, appointment reminders, and access to personal health information, fostering a stronger patient-provider relationship.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Urgently Ortho in San Francisco, California, had an overarching goal: to create a tech-enabled orthopedic urgent care facility that provided a seamless patient experience using technology that could scale with leadership’s growth ambitions. ” Most hospital EHRs did not offer a great patient experience.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. By allowing AI-enhanced workflow, organizations can implement better data exchange between processes and immediately deliver results in cost and time savings, while significantly improving staff and patient satisfaction.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Staffing experts indicate that health care staffing levels are unlikely to return to pre-pandemic levels for at least five years. Those metrics leave leadership no alternative but to look to technology to augment the lack of staff. Chief Medical Officer at Iris Telehealth. Tom Milam, M.D.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 1, 2020

The following is a guest article by Rick Halton, VP Marketing & Product, Lumeon. I’m sure you’ve seen the iconic movie ‘Lost In Translation’ set in Japan – with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson – it’s about what goes unsaid. The cast spends the whole time communicating through technology or interpreters.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

For the month of April, we'll look at this trend from a variety of angles, including how hospitals, pharma organizations and payers can treat patients as customers, and how these healthcare consumers are cutting out traditional intermediaries through new D2C health and wellness businesses. Health IT implementation best practices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2022

"Supportive leadership and persistent visionaries decided telemedicine was the solution to this continuously growing problem of too few specialists and pediatric patients with complex healthcare needs scattered and isolated all over rural Kansas and Missouri," she added. MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. These factors shot telehealth and related technologies and services like connected health and remote patient monitoring through the stratosphere. " B.J.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Since the pandemic began, healthcare organizations have been making significant process and technology changes to see and treat patients safely. There are new safety protocols like mask requirements, new options for care like telehealth, and new processes like park […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 10, 2022

One of the people who’s had a front row seat to some of the major happenings in health IT is Zane Burke. Then, Burke was CEO of Livongo Health before it was eventually acquired by Teladoc. Burke is now CEO at Quantum Health. Plus, we ask Burke how inflation is affection healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2021

For the 9th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we’re sitting down with Natalie Pageler, MD – CMIO at Stanford Children’s Health. A few years back I learned that if you really want to understand what’s possible in healthcare, talk to a children’s hospital.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

A previous article, “ Patient Scheduling and Pre-Visit Intake: Let’s Give Patients What They’re Asking For ” discussed technological solutions to patients’ frustrating scheduling experience. Technology has the potential to improve both simultaneously.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. This will allow the healthcare industry at large to use AI and Automation where it needs to be used, to provide a better patient experience and increase the quality of healthcare delivery, instead of used to increase or decrease profits.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 25, 2023

Together with the innovation in reimbursement models for remote patient monitoring, a path to adoption of RPM as a core component of medical management of health conditions emerged. When physicians were unable to see patients in person, telehealth and RPM became a necessary capability not a nice-to-have.

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